Daianna Gonzalez-Padilla

About me

I’m a post-baccalaureate researcher working on bioinformatics to study brain function and disease, genetic variation, and drug response. My main interest is the development of algorithms to analyze omics data and their application to answer a wide range of biological questions.

Education

📍: on-site  |  : remote

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Morelos, Mexico 2020 - 2024
B.Sc. in Genomic Sciences (LCG) 📍🇲🇽

Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM), Zacatecas, Mexico 2017 - 2020
High School 📍🇲🇽

Research experience

Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Sept 2024 - Present
Research assistant in the Immune Genomics group of Dr. Gosia Trynka. 📍🇬🇧

Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD), Baltimore, MD Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
Undergraduate researcher in the Data Science team of Dr. Leonardo Collado-Torres. 📍🇺🇸 |

Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden Aug - Nov 2023
Undergraduate researcher in the Personalized Medicine and Drug Development lab of Dr. Volker Lauschke. 📍🇸🇪

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston, MA Feb - Jul 2022
Intern in the Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub with Dr. Xianjun Dong.

Center for Genomic Sciences (CCG), Morelos, Mexico Feb - Jul 2021
Undergraduate researcher in the Systems Biology lab of Dr. Julio A. Freyre-Gonzalez. 📍🇲🇽 |

Publications

Benchmark of cellular deconvolution methods using a multi-assay reference dataset from postmortem human prefrontal cortex. | Huuki-Myers, L. A., Montgomery, K. D., Kwon, S. H., Cinquemani, S., Eagles, N. J., Gonzalez-Padilla, D., …, Collado-Torres, L. (2024).

Population-scale variability of the human UDP-glycosyltransferase gene family. | Gonzalez-Padilla, D., Camara, M. D., Lauschke, V. M. & Zhou, Y. (2024).

Presentations

Annual Bioconductor Conference 2023 , Boston, MA Aug 2023
 Presented a short talk titled “Modeling the effects of nicotine and smoking exposures on the developing mouse brain”. 📍🇺🇸
 Presented a long workshop titled “A Bioconductor-style differential expression analysis powered by SPEAQeasy”.
 Presented a Birds-of-a-feather session titled “Bioconductor and the Latin American Bioinformatics Landscape”.

NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Meeting 2024, Bethesda, MD Jun 2024
Poster presentation titled “Transcriptomic changes in habenula and amygdala following chronic fentanyl self-administration in rats” | Yalcinbas, E. & Gonzalez-Padilla, D. 📍🇺🇸

PGRN Annual Meeting 2024, Columbus, OH Sept 2024
Oral presentation titled “Population-Scale Variability in the Human Uridine Diphosphate (UDP)-Glycosyltransferase Gene Family”. 📍🇺🇸

Skills

  • Programming: , , , C/C++, and Perl.
  • Bioconductor package development
  • GitHub
  • Compute clusters and Bash scripting
  • Quarto websites 🌐

Achievements

National CARMA Women’s Mathematics Olympiad Mar 2020
🥇 Gold medal 📍🇲🇽

33 National Mexican Mathematics Olympiad (OMM) Nov 2019
🗞 Honorable mention 📍🇲🇽

Please refer to my CV for more details about my education, past research and teaching experience, presentations and courses, publications and ongoing projects. In case of questions or queries, feel free to contact me in any of my social media.


Last Updated: 2024-08-27

Daianna Gonzalez-Padilla

About me

I’m a post-baccalaureate researcher working on bioinformatics to study brain function and disease, genetic variation, and drug response. My main interest is the development of algorithms to analyze omics data and their application to answer a wide range of biological questions.

Education

📍: on-site  |  : remote

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Morelos, Mexico 2020 - 2024
B.Sc. in Genomic Sciences (LCG) 📍🇲🇽

Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM), Zacatecas, Mexico 2017 - 2020
High School 📍🇲🇽

Research experience

Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Sept 2024 - Present
Research assistant in the Immune Genomics group of Dr. Gosia Trynka. 📍🇬🇧

Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD), Baltimore, MD Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
Undergraduate researcher in the Data Science team of Dr. Leonardo Collado-Torres. 📍🇺🇸 |

Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden Aug - Nov 2023
Undergraduate researcher in the Personalized Medicine and Drug Development lab of Dr. Volker Lauschke. 📍🇸🇪

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston, MA Feb - Jul 2022
Intern in the Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub with Dr. Xianjun Dong.

Center for Genomic Sciences (CCG), Morelos, Mexico Feb - Jul 2021
Undergraduate researcher in the Systems Biology lab of Dr. Julio A. Freyre-Gonzalez. 📍🇲🇽 |

Publications

Benchmark of cellular deconvolution methods using a multi-assay reference dataset from postmortem human prefrontal cortex. | Huuki-Myers, L. A., Montgomery, K. D., Kwon, S. H., Cinquemani, S., Eagles, N. J., Gonzalez-Padilla, D., …, Collado-Torres, L. (2024).

Population-scale variability of the human UDP-glycosyltransferase gene family. | Gonzalez-Padilla, D., Camara, M. D., Lauschke, V. M. & Zhou, Y. (2024).

Presentations

Annual Bioconductor Conference 2023 , Boston, MA Aug 2023
 Presented a short talk titled “Modeling the effects of nicotine and smoking exposures on the developing mouse brain”. 📍🇺🇸
 Presented a long workshop titled “A Bioconductor-style differential expression analysis powered by SPEAQeasy”.
 Presented a Birds-of-a-feather session titled “Bioconductor and the Latin American Bioinformatics Landscape”.

NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Meeting 2024, Bethesda, MD Jun 2024
Poster presentation titled “Transcriptomic changes in habenula and amygdala following chronic fentanyl self-administration in rats” | Yalcinbas, E. & Gonzalez-Padilla, D. 📍🇺🇸

PGRN Annual Meeting 2024, Columbus, OH Sept 2024
Oral presentation titled “Population-Scale Variability in the Human Uridine Diphosphate (UDP)-Glycosyltransferase Gene Family”. 📍🇺🇸

Skills

  • Programming: , , , C/C++, and Perl.
  • Bioconductor package development
  • GitHub
  • Compute clusters and Bash scripting
  • Quarto websites 🌐

Achievements

National CARMA Women’s Mathematics Olympiad Mar 2020
🥇 Gold medal 📍🇲🇽

33 National Mexican Mathematics Olympiad (OMM) Nov 2019
🗞 Honorable mention 📍🇲🇽

Please refer to my CV for more details about my education, past research and teaching experience, presentations and courses, publications and ongoing projects. In case of questions or queries, feel free to contact me in any of my social media.


Last Updated: 2024-08-27